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For wine lovers, also see Max's wine blog. Max is Duck & Truffle's wine specialist. He is a multi-lingual
Italian qualified sommelier with more than 25 years experience in Relais & Châteaux and Michelin-starred restaurants across Europe and the Far-East. His passion for food and wine is
addictive and his blog provides his personal point of view on excellent value wines that he has had the pleasured experiencing.

From the gourmet delights of Michelin-starred restaurants to a feast of classic specialities at a ferme auberge, we’ve used our local knowledge of the Dordogne to bring you gastro guided weekends
- sharing some of the best gourmet and wine experiences this French region has to offer.

Périgord (known to most of us as the Dordogne) is regarded as having some of the best cuisine in the country (not bad considering the country is famed for its culinary expertise). It’s the
home of Foie Gras, Black Truffles and Duck, and the rich soil provides a number of walnut tree plantations producing delicious oil.

From late September to late April, Périgord (known to most of us as the Dordogne) is a different place to the one seen by visitors during the summer. The days may be shorter and from
December through February the weather can be cold and damp, but with the morning mist sitting over the Dordogne River and the low sun reflecting on the yellow stone buildings, the Dordogne, is as
stunning as ever out of season.

We've captured just some of the reasons that we think this place is special out of season.

A great article in Living
France, October 2016, from an interview between Duck & Truffle's Kate and Living France writer Catriona Burns... "a love of food and wine inspired two couples to team up and launch a
business running gourmet weekends and wine tours in Dordogne".

How did a local gastro guided tour company meet a famous author? It was during the winter of 2015, as we updated the agenda for our Black Diamond gastro guided tour, that we realised so many of the places we were visiting - restaurants, vineyards and historic sites - plus the accommodation we were
providing, were all in the footsteps of ’Bruno, Chief of Police’.

Navigating a region's food scene can have you going round in circles. Restaurants and wine bars all tempting you in. Guidebooks and Trip Advisor are a great place to start but how do
you know you have searched all the options, and, how do you know what you want?